United States First Circuit

In a wrongful death suit alleging that smoking was the cause of death, the district court properly dismissed plaintiff's claims, against a cigarette manufacturer, which alleged failure to warn and defective design theories.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/21/2005
• Published 04/22/2005

Judges

• COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Herbert Muriel with whom Amarilys Arocho-Maldonado was on brief for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert H. Klonoff with whom Paul R. Reichert, Jones Day, Salvador Antonetti Zequeira, Luis A. Oliver, Rosalie Irizarry Silvestri, and Fiddler, Gonzalez & Rodriguez, P.S.C. were on brief for appellee.